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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

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How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

I would rather be right than be President.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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